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Video Editing Made Easy with DaVinci Resolve 18

By : Lance Phillips
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Book Image

Video Editing Made Easy with DaVinci Resolve 18

5 (1)
By: Lance Phillips

Overview of this book

Micro content dominates social media marketing, but subpar editing and low-quality videos can shrink your audience. Elevate your social media game with DaVinci Resolve - the world’s most trusted name in color grading that has been used to grade Hollywood films, TV shows, and commercials. Version 18 enables you to edit, compose VFX, mix sound, and deliver videos for different platforms, including social media and the web. You’ll learn the basics of using DaVinci Resolve 18 to create video content, by first gaining an overview of creating a complete short video for social media distribution directly from within the “Cut” page. You’ll discover advanced editing, VFX composition, color grading, and sound editing techniques to enhance your content and fix common video content issues that occur while using consumer cameras or mobile phones. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-equipped to use DaVinci Resolve to edit, fix, finish, and publish short-form video content directly to social media sites such as YouTube, Twitter, and Vimeo.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1: A Quick Start to DaVinci
7
Part 2: Fixing Audio and Video
11
Part 3: Advanced Techniques

Importing audio effects plug-ins

One advantage of using Resolve is that, like any other Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), it has the ability to import extra audio plug-ins in order to expand its audio capabilities.

Resolve supports two common audio plug-in formats, AU and VST:

  • AU plug-ins

The Audio Unit (AU) plug-in was created by Apple. So, if you are using an Apple Mac, you will find that Resolve automatically recognizes the AU plug-ins already installed on your Mac.

  • VST plug-ins

The Virtual Studio Technology (VST) plug-in is a standard audio effect plug-in created by Steinberg.

VST plug-ins come as either effects plug-ins or instrument (VSTi) plug-ins, where you can play a virtual instrument or synthesizer.

Top tip – finding VST and AU effects

There are plenty of independent third-party plug-in developers on the internet who offer both free and paid VST and AU plug-ins you can download. Just do a quick web search to discover pages...